Doug’s Dynamic Drivel

Thanks to Tom over at Backup Brain for pointing me to this article. As I’ve said many times over the years deregulation of the Telecom industry is nothing but a consumer disaster waiting to happen. Michael Powell is moving rapidly now to put regulation of information services, deliverd over traditional telecom and cable networks, beyond [...]

Unbelievable - you’d think Ottawa and wWashingtom would be familiar with the phrase "e;If It ain’t Broke Don’t Fix It", but apparantly not. The refugee system on both sides of the border is far from perfect, but at least it works. Now the two countries have agreed on a "e;Safe Third Country" policy as part [...]

About time!
By David Rennie
(Filed: 28/08/2002)
The United States government has illegally held hundreds of deportation hearings in secret since September 11, an appeal court has ruled.
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit criticised the government’s decision to ban the public, press and relatives from deportation hearings for hundreds of immigrants - most of them [...]

Politics in Canada - often boring and a bit stogy, at least compared to our neighbours to the south - is about to become quite interesting over the next 18 months. In fact it could become quite viscious in the fight to see who will succeed Jean Chretien as leader of the liberal Party and [...]